"OCTOBER: The First Decade, 1976 - 1986 brings together a selection of some of the most important and representative texts, many from issues long out of print, that have appeared in one of the foremost journals in art criticism and theory. ... [details]
Edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Douglas Crimp, Craig Owens, David Deitcher, and Lawanda Still. Essays "Observations on the Long Take What Is Neo-Zhdanovism and What Is Not," by Pier Paolo Pasolini; "Pasolini: Murder of a Dissident," by Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi; "Merde Alors," by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit; "Poststructuralism and the "Paraliterary," " by Rosalind Krauss; "On the Museum's Ruins," by Douglas Crimp; "The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism (Part 2)," by Craig Owens; "Against Intellectual Complexity in Music," by Michael Nyman; " "Son of a Bitch": Feminism, Humanism, and Science in Alien," by James H. ... [details]